Google sued by rival app store Aptoide over alleged monopoly

A new antitrust lawsuit on Tuesday accuses Google of shutting out ​rival Android app stores by monopolising app distribution and ‌billing, violating U.S. antitrust law.

Aptoide, a Portuguese company ​that specialises in mobile games and calls ⁠itself the world’s third-largest Android app store, said it would have exerted substantially more pressure on Google’s pricing ‌and policies but for Google’s “anticompetitive chokehold” that shuts out smaller rivals.